“We recruit for kindness”, Lucy O’Flaherty, on using emotional intelligence tests during the hiring process

On 8 June 2018, HelloCare published an article on its website titled ‘Gangrene, Agonising Infections Reported At Recently Re-Accredited Newcastle Nursing Home’. The article described a series of medical conditions suffered by residents of the nursing home and suggested that those conditions were caused or contributed to by a lack of adequate care on the... Read More

  A registered nurse who allegedly attempted to suffocate an elderly patient with a pillow remains behind bars after being charged with attempted murder late last week. Detectives were called to the Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital in NSW on Thursday after a colleague was forced to intervene after allegedly witnessed 50-year-old nurse, Timothy Owen, attempt to smother... Read More

Royal Commission isn’t highlighting “new problems”, hear from Leanne Emerson, Dementia Australia Read More